The judge presiding over the documents case, Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, dismissed the charges on the grounds that Smith, the special counsel, was unlawfully appointed. (AFP)
The department had been relying on a specialized team to filter out potentially privileged communications and said Monday that it had completed its review of those materials before the judge's order. U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon said on Saturday that it was her “preliminary intent” ...
However, Florida-based US District Aileen Cannon, who was nominated by Trump, agreed with the former president's defence lawyers that Mr Smith was unlawfully appointed to his role and did not have the authority to bring the case. The judge also ruled that Mr Smith's office was ...
Unfortunately, the case has been assigned to Judge Aileen Cannon, who has already established herself to be a wildly biased and utterly reckless judge in handling of Trump. She already played a role in handling of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago where her handling got her utterly backhanded...
But federal Judge Aileen Cannon, who had been appointed by Trump in the final months of his first presidency, sided with the man who gave her a job and threw out the case. Meanwhile, Republican-appointed justices on the Supreme Court slow-walked the case against Trump for allegedly inciting...
District Judge Aileen Cannon to make those roughly 100 documents - among the more than 11,000 records found in the court-approved Aug. 8 search - part of a review that an independent arbiter, called a special master, will conduct to vet all the materials. The special m...
Palij told Justice Department investigators who showed up at his door in 1993: “I would never have received my visa if I told the truth. Everyone lied.” A judge stripped Palij’s citizenship in 2003 for “participation in acts against Jewish civilians” while an armed guard at the Trawni...
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon had given both sides until Friday to submit potential candidates for the role of a special master, as well as proposals for the scope of the person's duties and the schedule for his or her work.
In the classified documents case, U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon granted a defense motion to dismiss the case Monday, voiding a prosecution that at the time it was brought was seen as the most perilous of the multiple legal threats Trump faced. ...
House GOP leadership announces new rules package raising motion to vacate threshold From CNN’s Aileen Graef, Annie Grayer and Sarah Ferris House Republicans announced Wednesday an agreement to raise the threshold to invoke a motion to vacate in exchange for amendment changes. The motion to vacate ...